"Sick On New Year's" - by Ty Cummings

A submission for the 2024 Public Domain Day Film Contest.

All music used was recorded, composed, released, or topping the charts in 1928.

All footage used was published in 1928. Except:
-Footage of Igor Stravinsky and Louis Armstrong
-Moulin Rouge originally released in 1928, but technically the video file used here is from the next year's re-release with added sound.
-The unidentified home movie is either from 1928 or 1929.

Dedicated to all my fellow artists and editors who reach for public domain materials before stock licenses and the folks at Internet Archive who walk the tightrope to keep our access full and free.


Music:

Stravinsky's 'Apollo' - Premiered in 1928. Recording used: 'Stravinsky Conducts Four Great Ballets'

Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill's 'Alabama Song' - Topped the charts in 1928. Made famous to modern audiences by The Doors in 1966. Originally from the play 'Little Mahagonny' and reused in the opera 'Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.' Recording used: 'Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny'

Pine Top Smith's 'Boogie Woogie' - Topped the charts in 1928, released the same year and is the recording used. 'Pinetop's Boogie Woogie'

Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II's 'Ol' Man River' - Paul Whiteman's recording topped the charts in 1928. From the show tune 'Show Boat.' Recording used: 'Ol' Man River - Harry Stockwell, Robert Trendler'


Footage:

'The Passion of Joan of Arc' - 1928
'Moulin Rouge' - 1929 re-release of the 1928 film
'Our Dancing Daughters' - 1928
'Newsreel: Gyro Flies to Capitol' -1928
'Steamboat Willie' - 1928
'Steamboat Bill Jr.' - 1928
'Stravinsky' - 1965
'Zora Neale Hurston's Fieldwork Footage' - 1928
'Louis Armstrong in Africa' - 1960
'Lights of New York' -1928
'The Gallopin' Gaucho' - 1928
'Home Movie: 98688: Unidentified' - 1928-1929
'The Circus Charlie Chaplin' - 1928